Local : Global :: Localite :?
Context: I want to indicate people who keep travelling around the world (sometimes as part of their jobs and sometimes to volunteer during a crisis) without settling down at a single country.
I came across terms like Global Citizens / World Citizens, but I want to know if I can use Globalite, albeit as a neologism, such that it will be analogous with Localite
Merriam-Webster does define localite, but not globalite
localite (noun)
a native or resident of the locality under consideration
Solution 1:
I think as a single word cosmopolite may convey the idea:
- a person familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures.
In this extract, for instance, it is used as an antonym of localite:
- Cosmopolite channels are relatively more important at the knowledge stage, and localite channels are relatively more important at the persuasion stage in the innovation- decision ...
and also here:
- Information Seeking Behaviour of Livestock Farmers Sources of Information It is evident from Table 6.9, that majority of the respondents belonged to medium category in acquiring information from personal-localite, personal-cosmopolite and ...
The term "localite", though present in dictionaries, in not a common one, and I'd avoid using "globalite". World/global citizen are good options.